Ref. Ares(2021)5742794 - 20/09/2021
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR ENERGY
The Director-General
Brussels, 20 September 2021
ENER/DJ/MA (2021)6383043
By registered letter with acknowledgment of
receipt
PACE Barnaby
Rue Belliard 53
1000 Brussels
Advance copy by email :
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Subject:
Your application for access to documents – GESTDEM 2020/4710
Dear Mr Pace,
We refer to your e-mail of 26 July 2021 in which you make a request for access to
documents, registered on 26 July 2021 under the above-mentioned reference numbers.
We regret to inform you that the Commission does not hold any documents that would
correspond to the description given in your application:
All documents—including but not limited to correspondence, emails, minutes, notes (hand
written or electronic), audio or video recordings, verbatim reports, operational conclusions,
lines to take, briefings, and presentations—related to the meeting (or meetings) on 3 May
2019 between Bernd Biervert, Dominique Ristori and LNG Allies.
As specified in Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, the right of access as
defined in that regulation applies only to existing documents in the possession of the
institution.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Office: DM24 08/084 - Tel. direct line +32 229-62496
xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Given that no such documents, corresponding to the description given in your
application, are held by the Commission, the Commission is not in a position to fulfil
your request.
In accordance with Article 7(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001, you are entitled to make
a confirmatory application requesting the Commission to review this position.
Such a confirmatory application should be addressed within 15 working days upon receipt
of this letter to the Secretariat-General of the Commission at the following address:
European Commission
Secretariat-General
Transparency,
Document
Management
&
Access
to
Documents
(SG.C.1)
BERL 7/076
B-1049 Brussels
or by email to:
xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.xx
Yours faithfully,
(e-signed)
Ditte Juul Jørgensen
p.o. Cristina Lobillo Borrero
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Electronically signed on 20/09/2021 16:22 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482